Improvement in tourists tablets



F. G. O-D'EN'HEIMER.

TOURIS-TS TABLET.

'PaEented May 2,1876.

INVENTOR WlTN ESSES v A'TTORNEYS N-PETERS. PHOT HER, WASHINGTON D C Umcrnn STATES PATENT FFICE.

FRANK G. ODENHEIMER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT m rooms-rs TABLETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 176,985, dated May 2, 1876; application filed January 22, 1876.

To all whom it mag concern: 5

Be it known that I, FRANK G. QDENHEIMER, of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Tourists Tablets; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereignates an ordinary portfolio or pocket-case,

consisting of a central part, a,'and two folding wings, I), which are designed to fold the one over the other upon the said central part in the usual manner. Wings 1) will, inpractice, be each provided with a pouch or pocket, 0, in which money, bank-notes, letters of credit, and the like, may be placed, and the central part wwill have upon its edge, near one of the pouches or pockets 0, a stall, 0, adapted to receive a pencil. This construction being old and well-known in the manufacture of money or bill receptacles, I do not claim the use of the case, broadly.

In carrying outmy invention, the inner wall of the cental part a will be provided with a stiff tough backing, f, secured by its opposite edges to part a, the object of which will hereinafter appear. 7 any number desirable of superposed sheets of paper, two opposite edges of which are cemented together by a fillet or strip of paper, 9, which is pasted or otherwise secured upon the edges of the said tablet, as shown in Fig. 1. This strip or fillet may be gilt or otherwise ornamented upon its outer surface, and will thus be made to present a smooth finished appear- The tablet B is composed ofance. It will also be folded under and glued or pasted to a pasteboard or other backing, O, as shown in Fig. 2, thus securing it from being blown about by the wind. Backing 0 will be detachably secured by means of suitable rivets or fasteners i to the stiffened wall 'ofthe pouch or pocket a, permanent eyelets being let into backing f for the purpose. The edges of the tablet being secured to the backing and to each other, and the said backing beingriveted to the pouch, the folds or wings b maybe opened and a sheet of paper thus exposed upon thetablet utilized. for taking notes or sketches of noticeable'views without danger of the'said sheet being broken loose from the tablet by the force of the wind, and when filled may be torn off in the usual manner, Without disturbing the remaining sheets below. t

When the entire tablet has been exhausted,

a second one may be secured to backing f,by means of paper-fasteners, or other like devices, passing through the backingf and bottom (3,

and the same casing or portfolio used forany number of tablets.

Inlieu of the double folding casing above described, I may employ a casing having only a single fold, as I do not wish to be confined to anyspecial description of covering, the gist of my invention being the backing or false bottom 0, eyeleted stiffened back 7", and the fasteners or rivets 2'.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As a new article of manufacture, a tourist-tablet, consisting of the pocket-case A,

stiff backing f, and the detachable tablet B,

secured to a false back, which is itself fastened to the central fold of the pocket-case, substantially as described.

2. In combination, the tablet B,'having false bottom or backing 0, the casing having eyeleted stiffened backs f, and the detachable rivets or fasteners 73, substantially as specified.

In testimony-that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

FRANK G. QDENHEIMER. Witnesses:

GEORGE E. UPHAM, D. D. KANE. 

